When Mountain Howitzers Were Used

1847:
February 1-3: Taos, New Mexico: Sterling Price's U.S. Infantry. John C. Waugh's The Class of 1846

August 19: Contreras, Mexico: U.S. Battery led by Lt. Franklin Callender. Stephen W. Sears' George B. McClellan The Young Napo1eon

1858:
May 17: Palouse River, Washington: Charles Winder's 7th US Infantry
John C. Waugh's The Class of 1846

1861:
May: Washington, D.C.: 7th New York Militia. William C. Davis' Battle at Bull Run

October 21: Ball's Bluff, Virginia: Unattached U.S. guns. H.S. Commager's The Blue and the Gray, Vol.1

November: Bowling Green, Kentucky: 1st Louisiana Cavalry & Watson's La. Battery. Stephen B. Oates' Confederate Cavalrv West of the River

1862:
February 21: Valverde, New Mexico: Sibley's Texas Brigade and McRae's U.S. Battery. Found in Civil War Times October 1995

March 28: Glorieta, New Mexico: Sibley's Texas Brigade and Ritter's 5th U.S. Infantry, J. B. Farmer's My Life With The Army In The West

May 4: Blow's Mill, Virginia: J. E. B. Stuart's Horse, H. B. McClellan's The Campaigns of Stuart's Cavalry

June: Shenandoah Valley, Virginia: Imboden's Virginia Battery, J. C. Wise's The Long Arm of Lee, Vol.1.

June 8: Port Republic, Virginia: Carrington's Virginia Battery, Robert Tanner's Stonewall in the Vallev

July 11: Lebanon, Kentucky: 2nd Kentucky Cavalry, Dee A. Brown's Morgan's Raiders

August 29: Second Manassas, Virginia: 1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery I, H. S. Commager's The Blue and the Grav

September 3-29: Fort Abercrombie, North Dakota: Vander Horck's Minnesota Vols, Herbert M. Hart's Old Forts of the Northwest

September 15: Crampton's Gap, Maryland: Portsmouth, Virginia Battery, H. B. McClellan's The Campaigns of Stuart's Cavalry

September 15: 24 mountain howitzers captured at Harper's Ferry. Walter Taylor's General Lee & B. P. Alexander's Military Memoirs

September 27: Augusta, Kentucky: 2nd Kentucky Cavalry. Dee A. Brown's Morgan's Raiders

October 16: Lexington, Kentucky: 2nd Kentucky Cavalry, Dee A. Brown's Morgan's Raiders

November 2: Upperville, Virginia: Stuart's Horse Artillery
Found in H. B. McClellan's The Campaigns of Stuart's Cavalry
December 27: Elizabethtown, Kentucky: 2nd Kentucky Cavalry, Dee A. Brown's Morgan's Raiders

December 31: Parker's Crossroads, Tennessee: Morton's Tennessee Battery, John Morton's The Artillery of Nathan Bedford Forrest's Cavalrv

1863.
January 28: Dover, Tennessee: Morton's Tennessee Battery, John Morton's The Artillery of Nathan Bedford Forrest's Cavalry

March 5: Franklin, Tennessee: Morton's Tennessee Battery, John Morton's The Artillery of Nathan Bedford Forrest's Cavalry

April 30-May 3: Streight's Raid in Alabama & Georgia: Streight's Mounted Infantry, Confederate Veteran September-October 1994

May 30: Catlett's Station, Virginia: Mosby's Rangers, Time Life's Spies Scouts and Raiders

August 31: Fayetteville, Arkansas: Arkansas Light Artillery mustered into U.S. service, P. W. Steele's Civil War in the Ozarks

September 10-20: Chickamauga, Georgia Campaign: Morton's Tennessee Battery, John Morton's The Artillery of Nathan Bedford Forrest's Cavalry

September 10-20: Chickamauga, Georgia: 1 8th Indiana, J. C. Hazlett's Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil War

October 23: Washington, Louisiana: Valverde Battery (Texas), J. P. Blessington's Walker's Texas Division

October 28: Newtonia, Missouri: 1st Colorado Battery,
P. W. Steele's Civil War in the Ozarks

November 3: Red River Campaign, Louisiana: Valverde Battery (Texas), J. P. Blessington's Walker's Texas Division

1864:
February 22: Okolona, Mississippi: Morton's Tennessee Battery & Perkin's U.S. Battery, John Morton's The Artillery of Nathan Bedford Forrest's Cavalrv

June 10: Brice's Crossroads, Mississippi: Morton's Tennessee Battery, John Morton's The Artillery of Nathan Bedford Forrest's Cavalry

June 29: Reams Station, Virginia: Wilson's U.S. Cavalry, Peter Carmichael's Lee's Young Artillerist: William R. J. Pegram

August 13: Berryville, Virginia: Mosby's Rangers, Virgil Carrington Jones' Gray Ghosts and Rebel Raiders

Sept 14 1862 At Turners Gap and possibly throughoutthe war Thomas H Carters Virginia battery was armed with two mountain howitzers , two 6-pdrs & one 10 pdr parrot. (REF: BEFORE ANTIETAM ;THE BATTLE FOR SOUTH MOUNTAIN page # 171-172 & 373 NOTE # 186 - sent to us by CPL. Steven W Charles BATTERY D 1ST MICH LT. ART.

November 25: Adobe Walls, Texas: 1st California Infantry with Kit Carson, America's Civil War September 1995

1865:
January 7: Julesberg, Colorado: U.S. Regular Infantry, Herbert M. Hart's Old Forts of the Northwest

USERS:

Pre-Civil War:
Callender's U.S. Battery, Price's U.S. Infantry, Winder's 6th U.S. Infantry

Confederate:
2nd Kentucky Cavalry, Watson's Louisiana Artillery Battery, 1st Louisiana Cavalry, Morton's Tennessee Battery, Valverde Battery (Texas), Sibley's Texas Brigade, Portsmouth Virginia Battery, Stuart's Horse Artillery, Carrington's Virginia Battery, Imboden's Virginia Battery, Mosby's 43rd Virginia Battalion

Union:
Arkansas Light Artillery, 1st California Infantry, 1st Colorado Battery, 18th Indiana
Battery, Vander Horck' s Minnesota Volunteers, 1st Ohio Light Artillery Battery I, 7th New York
Militia, McRae's U.S. Battery, Perkin's U.S. Battery, Streight's Mounted Infantry, Wilson's U.S.
Cavalry Division, Ritter's 5th U.S. Infantry

Unattached:
U.S. guns at Ball's Bluff, Va.